Kategoria BISAC: Social Science >> Sociology - General

This book collects the latest research results on security-related advanced technologies. The chapters contain relevant and interesting topics from numerous research. Data science and artificial intelligence research nowadays one of the most important topics for the industry and the security sectors. The autonomy and counter-autonomy research topic are also very interesting. Autonomous cars have become a part of the common days, but their safe and secure application is not assured. The research results in this field want to support and assure safe and secure autonomous applications in our...

This book contributes to research on therapeutic culture by drawing on longstanding ethnographic work and by offering a new theoretical reading of therapeutic culture in today's society. It suggests that the therapeutic field serves as a key site in which a number of contradictions of capitalism are confronted and lived out. It shows that therapeutic engagements are inherently ambivalent and contradictory, as they can be articulated and engaged with in many different ways and harnessed for diverse, and often contradictory, political projects. The book takes issue with the...

This book provides a unique, in-depth look at three Indigenous World Heritage sites in Canada and their use for Indigenous empowerment and community development. Based on extensive ethnographic field studies and comprehensive narrative interviews, it shows how the three First Nation communities presented in the case studies enforce recognition of their collective rights to preserve their cultural heritage and assert their right to political, economic, cultural, and social self-determination. It also considers the prevailing universalistic discourses around World Heritage and the various...

Bereits ein wenig Organisationserfahrung lehrt: Am Arbeitsplatz wird nicht nur gearbeitet. Angesichts der Allgegenwärtigkeit persönlicher Beziehungen fällt jedoch der Mangel an theoretisch trennscharfen und empirisch angemessenen Beschreibungen auf. Der Band schließt diese Lücke anhand eines differenzierungstheoretischen Vorgehens, wodurch Kollegialität und Freundschaft als distinkte soziale Ordnungen sichtbar werden: Kollegen erwarten wie Vorgesetzte lediglich konformes Handeln. Ob man die Anweisung tatsächlich gerne ausführt oder ob man dem Kollegen wirklich von Herzen zum...